In the modern world being educated amounts to being made to forget.
I myself am an intellectual—a thought worker—but I have long preferred the company of the “ignorant”. i realize now that is because they have in general not forgotten the things that matter most to me.
Oxymoron isn’t.
Might take you a second.
It seems to me that the worst fate that can befall someone is to be bereft of memory, loyalty, and principle. This was largely true of the men of Orwell’s generation, I suppose. Individualism–even though it was even then being attacked carefully and effectively by careless and incompetent thinkers–was a thread permeating their consciousnesses.
Today, though, it seems to me that through a variety of means we have created hordes of people with de facto Borderline Personality disorders. They have fractured, undeveloped personalities, and tenuous and highly conditional senses of self.
For such people, being excluded from the groups they have come to depend on for sanity is the worst fate they can suffer, and in such a world the idea of the social credit score makes more sense. It is a torture by ostracizing, a torture by removal, by shunning. And it can be fully automated. It could be overseen TODAY, most likely, by AI.
I say to myself sometimes the best you can do is stay alive, hope, and do your best to remain awake, alert, and human, in ways both good and bad. And some days that is the best I can reasonably expect from myself. I am not depressed, so much as feeling this gnawing sense of desperation, like a trap is being closed around me I cannot avoid, and which will sooner or later devour me.
I say this in a spirit of ignorance and naivete–so this may be stupid–but it feels to me like a physical battle, with bullet wounds inflicted and seen, with smoke and sound, noise and fury, would be less stressful than dealing with the looming threat of empowered collective and collectivist madness.
And I say that having read a year or two an interview with a Canadian veteran who said precisely that, that he preferred being shot at to the slow growing grayness of Trudeauism, and who in fact volunteered to go back to some hot spot somewhere. I suspect a lot of mercenaries are like that too. It is a much simpler life, and not infrequently simpler is better. You know who your enemies are, and you have every chance to shoot them. They shoot back, but there is nothing particularly personal in it.
And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled.
He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.
We were a “happy city” last February, were we not? New businesses were opening up everywhere, unemployment was at historic lows, we were winding down our wars, and not starting any new ones.
Johns Hopkins started self censoring this nearly immediately after posting it. Since we patently now live in a world populated by more or less literal political Commissars scanning the internet for ThoughtCrimes, this post itself may be taken down, or mislabeled as misleading or false.
But the problem is not the science: it is the POLITICS. It makes it very obvious that the crimes our governments are committing against us can’t be justified even on their face, which is the claim that they are “saving lives”.
Overall death rates in all categories are more or less the same. Those who would have died of the flu died of COVID. Those who would have had heart attacks in their early 40’s died of COVID.
NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE. None of this, in my view, EVER made sense.
This is mass madness. This cannot–as I continue to demonstrate to the annoyance of some of you–be said often enough.
From the article: “Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.
Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged. Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths.
These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.
This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception?”
“The whole purpose of your life down here is that spirit, your spirit, shall shine within earth’s darkness. Your spirit is identical with the light which shone in the beginning. You, the real you, are here for a purpose, to shine through both body and mind and transmute them”. White Eagle Morning Light.
Maybe difficulty is the wind we need to fly, or to sail. Maybe cold is what we need to wake up to the warmth within us.
Is it all just a PsyOp, planned by the people it was supposedly planning to take down?
I have seen no evidence in all of this that honest people remain in our government in large enough numbers to matter. They sure as fuck need to get something done to prove otherwise. Otherwise they are contemptible, en masse and as individuals.
And I would suggest that the notion that our soldier are dying and fighting “for freedom” is integration propaganda.
America INVENTED propaganda. We invented mass marketing, which is just a form of it.
We have been bleeding slowly from our heads since our self inflicted and ghastly wound during Vietnam. I continue to believe that we only will be healed, and only can be healed, when the general truth about our victory and then chosen retreat in that war is common knowledge.
I don’t fault our soldiers for withdrawing into themselves. All of this is much too large, much too complicated. And we have been living complacent, largely affluent lives until now. There were little white churches to protect, and school picnics.
But what now? Are we to be placed on a river running over the falls of madness? Are we not there already?
His credibility is shot, is it not? He claimed that Trump had secretly created a system which made it impossible to forge ballots. He even claimed–several weeks ago–that arrests were coming.
Was he bought, to feed us that propaganda? Has he lost his mind? Surely we would know by now if this coding system existed.
It’s later than you think. You have a comfortable life, maybe, and your biggest stress is waiting for the next episode of the Mandalorian, but what we need to fear is not what is happening now, but what is being prepared and made POSSIBLE.
It should not be possible for a qualified expert to do a well constructed study indicating that the official narrative concerning the collapse of Tower 7 is ridiculous, and that is it was OBVIOUSLY brought down by explosives, and have that narrative disappear, and be ignored.
But that is what happened.
For myself, I feel I have been given the almost comically difficult task of seeing all this, and STILL remaining open, and practicing the quiet courage of patience and faith.
The complaints filed in Georgia and Michigan state, among other things, that China and Iran interfered directly with our election in a SUBSTANTIVE way, by connecting to the voting machines and altering totals. This is actual election tampering.
If true, would this not be a HUGE national security failure? One that happened on Trump’s watch?
But here is the thing: the CIA does not work for Trump. It does not work for the American people. It has not worked for the American people, on some accounts, nearly since its founding in the late 1940’s.
It seems obvious to me that, if it got them the result they wanted, key elements of our government would WELCOME Chinese and Iranian influence. It won’t affect their lives in any way. They would on the contrary be paid well, and perhaps even get promoted.
This is the real problem. We send good men and women overseas to fight our wars, our permawars, which after some period of time nobody really understands the point of any more, but our actual NATIONAL SECURITY is neglected.
There is every reason to think the FBI–which also has not worked in the national interest at least since 9/11, and was no doubt corrupted long before that, with at least one Senior Agent–Ted Gunderson–having accused them of having actively supported the bombings at the WTC and Oklahoma City–is actively scouring all social media and looking for whiffs of dissent. There is every reason to think every capable veteran is under more or less permanent surveillance.
They have cause to fear a revolution, because all of our agencies are corrupted and no longer working in our interest. They are working against our interest. They are being used by global elites to create panic and terror and wars we don’t need and which were created either out of whole cloth, or using planned provocations.
It is mind boggling. Trump has not stood a chance thus far.
Every expense of sweat and blood and toil needs to be expended keeping Trump in office by any means necessary, and he needs to pull off the gloves, understand that our press works for the Communists, and start taking back this country. To do otherwise is to invite all sorts of truly awful things.
Much of the enjoyment of being a connected member of the global elite is being in on the jokes the rest of the world does not know are being played on them.
It is no doubt a weak pleasure, suitable for those with advanced cases of ennui, moral dissipation and a pathological need for attention within a self referential circle. Ghislaine Maxwell would be an obvious example.
There exist in this world people capable of laughing at mass hunger, or at a minimum, of not caring about it in the least. There exist people capable of starting wars for profit. There exist people capable of robbing the poor simply because they can.
Clear sight is a vinegar of sorts. But like vinegar, it is a tonic of sorts too, and a stark relief from saccharine bromides.